Flyin' West by Pearl Cleage
Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2026
Time: Fri., 7:30pm and Sat.-Sun., 4-6:30pm
Venue: Burning Coal Theatre The Murphey School, Raleigh
Price: $27 - $32, $35 at the door
Category: Arts
Come out and see this great story of Black women in the 1890's and this amazing cast. Facing problems ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters, to the possibility of domestic violence, to the continuing specter of racial conflict, the women of Flyin’ West include Miss Leah, the old woman whose memories of slavery and its aftermath comprise a living oral history; Sophie Washington, whose determination to protect her land and those she loves puts to rest forever the requirement that western archetypes be white and male; Fannie Mae Dove, the gentle sister, trying to civilize the frontier with fine china and roses, who finds herself falling in love with their soft-spoken neighbor, Wil Parish; and Minnie Dove Charles, the headstrong baby sister whose mixed race husband, Frank, introduces a danger into the household that tests their sisterhood in unexpected ways.
